The Complex Staff Lists Their Favorite Movies and TV Shows of 2015

This is how the staff felt about 2015's movies and TV shows.

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Dec 29, 2015
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As we emphasized tirelessly when we dropped our lists for the best movies and TV shows of 2015 (both really good lists! Go read them!), there was almost too much to chose from. Especially when it came to television, the amount of quality programming exceeded the amount that one human could probably watch. So in a sense, our "Best of" lists are summaries and amalgamations of how the Complex staff came down on the big and small screen products this year, but they in no way fully encapsulated everything we were fucking with.

Which is why we had to bring you this—a breakdown of every Pop Culture staff members' (and a few former staff members' and frequent contributors') personal year-end preferences. Just check out the variation in these lists and you'll get an idea of how heated our discussions on 2015's movies and TV got. 

Also, sorry but not sorry about forcing you to expand your queue again.

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Andrew Gruttadaro

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Movies

1. It Follows

2. Mad Max: Fury Road

3. Ex Machina

4. The Big Short

5. Furious 7

6. Creed

7. Anomalisa

8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

9. The Hateful Eight

10. Chi-Raq

​TV Shows

1. Mr. Robot

2. Mad Men

3. The Jinx

4. Broad City

5. Fargo

6. Master of None

7. Game of Thrones

8. Inside Amy Schumer

9. The Carmichael Show

10. Silicon Valley

 

Kerensa Cadenas

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Twitter: @kerensacadenas

Movies

1. Carol

2. Queen of Earth

3. Diary of a Teenage Girl

4. Magic Mike XXL

5. Tangerine

6. 45 Years

7. Mad Max: Fury Road

8. Anomalisa

9. Creed

10. The Boy Next Door

Honorable Mentions: It Follows, Ex Machina, Girlhood, Spotlight

TV Shows

1. Transparent

2. You're the Worst

3. Master of None

4. UnReal

5. Jessica Jones

6. The Jinx

7. Broad City

8. Mad Men

9. Jane the Virgin

10. Looking

khal

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​Movies

1. The Peanuts Movie

2. Creed

3. Straight Outta Compton

4. Montage of Heck

5. Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives

6. Going Clear

7. Ant-Man

8. Deep Web

9. Goodnight Mommy

10. Avengers: Age of Ultron

​TV Shows

1. Jessica Jones

2. The Leftovers

3. The Jinx

4. Broad City

5. The Carmichael Show

6. Better Call Saul

7. Black Jesus

8. Inside Amy Schumer

9. Master of None

10. WWE Total Divas

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

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​Movies

1. Carol

2. Arabian Nights, Volumes I, II, III

3. The Forbidden Room

4. Queen of Earth

5. The Diary of a Teenage Girl

6. Mad Max: Fury Road

7. Mistress America

8. It Follows

9. 45 Years

10. The Clouds of Sils Maria

Honorable Mention: Magic Mike XXL

TV Shows

1. Jessica Jones

2. Mad Men

3. Jane the Virgin

4. Hannibal

5. Broad City

6. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

7. You're the Worst

8. Master of None

9. Criminal Minds

10. iZombie

 

Ian Servantes

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Movies

1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2. Ex Machina

3. Mad Max: Fury Road

4. Straight Outta Compton

5. Going Clear 

6. Spotlight

7. Beasts of No Nation

8. The Revenant

9. Furious 7

10. Montage of Heck

TV Shows

1. Mr. Robot

2. The Leftovers 

3. Mad Men

4. Master of None

5. Show Me a Hero

6. Broad City

7. Better Call Saul

8. Louie

9. Inside Amy Schumer

10. The Walking Dead

Catie Keck

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​Movies

1. Queen of Earth

2. Room

3. Felt

4. Going Clear

5. Ex Machina

6. Magic Mike XXL

7. The Clouds Of Sils Maria

8. Carol

9. Spotlight

10. The Visit

TV Shows

1. The Jinx

2. Veep

3. The Leftovers

4. Making a Murderer

5. Mr. Robot

6. Hannibal

7. Broad City

8. Mad Men

9. American Horror Story: Hotel

10. Jessica Jones

Brian Formo

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​Movies

1. Carol

2. Mad Max: Fury Road

3. Arabian Nights, Volumes I, II, III

4. Clouds of Sils Maria

5. Taxi

6. The Diary of a Teenage Girl

7. Mistress America

8. Magic Mike XXL

9. 45 Years

10. Creed

TV Shows

1. Silicon Valley

2. Mad Men

3. Transparent

4. Jessica Jones

5. Louie

6. The Affair

7. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

8. Inside Amy Schumer

9. Fargo

10. UnReal

Frazier Tharpe

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​TV Shows

1. The Leftovers

2. Mad Men

3. Game of Thrones

4. Hannibal

5. Fargo

6. Mr. Robot

7. black-ish

8. Louie

9. Justified

10. You're the Worst

[Ed. note: Frazier only saw blockbusters and overrated Oscar Bait this year, so here's the 10 best episodes he watched instead.​]

1. Mad Men - "Person to Person"

2. The Leftovers - "International Assassin"

3. Game of Thrones - "The Dance of Dragons"

4. Louie - "Untitled"

5. You're the Worst - "Spooky Sunday Funday"

6. black-ish - "Parental Guidance"

7. Daredevil - "Cut Man"

8. iZombie - "Blaine's World"

9. The Walking Dead - "JSS"

10. Better Call Saul - "Five-O"

Eric Eidelstein

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​Movies

1. Carol

2. 45 Years

3. Queen of Earth

4. Hard to Be a God

5. Anomalisa

6. TIE: The Tribe & Son of Saul

7. Tangerine

8.  Phoenix

9. Mad Max: Fury Road

10. Mistress America

TV Shows

1. Mad Men

2. Please Like Me

3. The Americans

4. Transparent

5. BoJack Horseman

6. Master of None

7. Rectify

8. Catastrophe

9. Casual 

10. Penny Dreadful

Erik Abriss

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​Movies

1. Mad Max: Fury Road

2. Sicario

3. Tangerine

4. Creed

5. The Big Short

6. Ex Machina

7. Results

8. White God

9. The End of the Tour

10. What We Do in the Shadows

TV Shows

1. The Leftovers

2. Nathan For You

3. black-ish

4. The Jinx

5. Master of None

6. Rick & Morty

7. True Detective (Yeah, you heard me.)

8. Kroll Show

9. Show Me a Hero

10. Man Seeking Woman

(Honorable mention goes to The Carmichael Show.  I can’t wait to see what that show does with a full season.)

Saloni Gajjar

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​Movies

1. Spotlight

2. The Martian

3. Mad Max: Fury Road

4. The Big Short

5. Room

6. Carol

7. Inside Out

8. Trainwreck

9. Results

10. Everest

TV Shows

1. Game of Thrones

2. The Americans

3. Orphan Black

4. The Mindy Project

5. Jane the Virgin

6. Master of None

7. Fargo

8. Jessica Jones

9. Transparent

10. How to Get Away With Murder

 

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